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Privacy of the photos and information

A. I. Eeronheimo

July 18, 2013 08:20

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Some of the photos I have added in my family tree are bublicly seen in Google. I hope you will handle the problem as soon as possible. Some of them are photos of the persons that are still living, for example the photo of Linda Peltola http://www.geni.com/people/Linda-Peltola/6000000016450293980 and Timo Eeronheimo http://www.geni.com/people/Timo-Eeronheimo/6000000018244251411. Both of these profiles were open in the Internet as well as the photos that were on that profile! 

Other photos that have leaked throw you in the Internet are leaking throw the profiles of people, that are already dead, such as

http://www.geni.com/people/Erkki-Eemeli-Peltola/6000000018341490379

 

I hope you will do something soon!!! Otherwise I have to remove all the data that is in my family tree, because I don´t trust you anymore.

 

Aino Peltola

 

Aino Peltola

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  Jeff, Geni Curator July 18, 2013 15:30

  Aino, from what I can tell, these photos are public because the owners of those profiles have allowed them to be public.  Geni members have the ability to set the privacy of their own profiles.

  For example, if Linda Peltola wants her profile picture private, she needs to change her privacy settings (http://www.geni.com/account_settings/profile_privacy) and change the option for "Profile Photo" to "Private".  Another thing to look at is Permissions (http://www.geni.com/account_settings/permissions) and the option "Let the public search for me (profile privacy settings apply)" is what allows Google to index the profile.

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  Jeff, Geni Curator July 18, 2013 15:37

  Some of the other profile pictures are public because the profiles themselves, of deceased relatives, are public profiles.  This can be changed on the profile edit basic tab.